This is a disturbing and powerful first film from a woman director who did no other films before this film and did not go to any film school. You can''t tell from the film that she lacks those credentials. It looks like the work of an experienced professional who knows exactly how to direct the cast and use the language of film to get the desired effects.

Sebastian and Paul are two boys about 16 years of age. Sebastian comes from a family of privilege and Paul lives with his mother on the "poor side of town".

They meet when Paul enrolls in Sebastian''s school. Both loners, neither can find a sense of meaning in their present adolescent existence. A quick, meandering and mischievous friendship evolves anchored on stealing and drinking alcohol in a state of continual boredom.

They are caught stealing alcohol in a supermarket by an employee, a young woman named Sonja. They are thrown out by her. They follow her home . . .

They spontaneously abduct Sonja and lock her in an old, abandoned factory building owned by Sebatians family. But what shall they do with her? Disorientation, fear, desire and love are changing to cruel aggressiveness.

In no time the boys enter another world as Jeffrey does in "Blue Velvet". A disturbing world of the human mind where the lines between victim and perpetrator, right and wrong, the normal and the abnormal start to dissolve. Both actors won Best Young Actor awards for their performances.